Tadao Ando Quotes

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

I just think everyone needs their own private space.

Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.

There should be at least a room or some corner where no one will find you and disturb you or notice you.

Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.

My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.

Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave.

I am private.

When I'm not working I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible.

I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.

All we ask is to be let alone.

You could never hide yourself in these places - in Mies's Farnsworth house, for example. That was a mistake of Modernism. People need places to hide from each other, too. You need everything.

I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.

I always sleep on my own. I can't sleep with somebody else. Always separate bedrooms, bathrooms and closets. I'm very individual and I want my own space.

It's hard to just kinda get some privacy and do your own thing.

I just wanted to have a private life.

I just want to be left alone.

I won't even let anyone in my house. I'm a private person.

Inside the car is truly my own personal space.

I'd rather be left to my own private life as much as be possible.

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.

You spend your whole life trying to get known and then you spend the rest of it hiding in the toilet.

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.